As the human race continues to become progressively more intelligent, countries are becoming more and more competitive in a “race to the top.” Our society, and others alike, have placed increasing demands on citizens in an effort to ensure they go on to be productive, intelligent contributors. While this is a natural progression of the human race, those who were previously struggling to succeed are now fighting to close an even larger gap. When it comes to education, this is a clear and present concern for many educators and students. Teachers are being held accountable for raising the bar and ensuring that each student performs successfully, in accordance with the national (Common Core) standards. A big concern regarding these increasing demands of an every changing society, are students who are already struggling to succeed, such as those with learning disabilities. One of the primary targets of the Common Core is reading, as reading ability is considered to strongly predict whether or not a student goes on to be successful in the education system and in society. In order to service these children, educators have experimented with many research-based interventions in an effort to get struggling students up to grade level and prevent them from being taken out of the general education classroom. The following articles discuss various aspects of a popular research-based intervention, Fountas and Pinnell, and how this interventions benefit students with learning disabilities, specifically in the area of reading comprehension.
Moore & Berry (2010) report that due to the changes and advancements in society and technology, educators are reevaluating the way traditional instruction was once delivered. Students now have an ab...
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... greatest risk for reading and writing disabilities are children with language impairments alone and children with comorbid speech impairments and language impairments. For children with speech impairments alone, there is limited risk for literacy difficulties. However, even when reading skills are within the average range, children with speech impairments may have difficulties in spelling. Children with language impairments are likely to display reading deficits in word decoding and reading comprehension.
This information is critical to early childhood educators who have students with speech and language impairments in their classrooms. It is a known fact that early intervention is critical for students with developmental delays, when best practice, research based methods are used; children have a significantly higher probability of obtaining grade level skills.
What are the benefits of implementing early intervention and RTI’s for children with early signs of a learning disability? This is a serious topic because of the increase over the years of children with learning disabilities. Instead of just placing students in special education programs educators must assess and evaluate students. As well as try early intervention programs and responsiveness to intervention known as RTI to try to delay the disability or stop the disability from forming and progressing. I have gathered articles that show the implementing of early intervention programs and RTI models to enhance children that show signs of an early learning disability. The articles all show how these programs can help students progress in academics as well as behavior areas in the classroom.
The causes of reading difficulties often arise because of learning disabilities such as dyslexia, poor preparation before entering school, no value for literacy, low school attendance, insufficient reading instruction, and/or even the way students were taught to read in the early grades. The struggles that students “encounter in school can be seen as socially constructed-by the ways in which schools are organized and scheduled, by assumptions that are made about home life and school abilities, by a curriculum that is often devoid of connections to students’ lives, and by text that may be too difficult for students to read” (Hinchman, and Sheridan-Thomas166). Whatever the reason for the existence of the reading problem initially, by “the time a [student] is in the intermediate grades, there is good evidence that he will show continued reading g...
The program works with more than 100 schools in seven states. The program is geared toward students from low-income families. The statistics for children’s literacy in the United States are astonishing. “In 2011, just thirty-four percent of the nation’s fourth graders in public school could read proficiently” (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011). The program itself has had exponential success.
Since we established our first schools in America, we have been in a constant state of change. We have progressed from schools made purely to teach young white boys the bible so that they could become preachers, to schools that allow women, to schools that are made to prepare everyone for their future. Even though we have had an abundance of good change, we have also had an abundance of bad change. Education Reform, in concept, is a great idea. Society is changing so our schools should be changing at the same rate. Our schools are struggling and we need to work towards reforming them for the better. The problem is, this reform is being put in place and decided by people who have never taught a day in their life. There are many different examples of reforms put in place by people who have never taught, that are failing out students. No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, Race to the Top, and other reforms are all examples of these failures. We need to look back on the mistakes that we have made through these reforms, and use this knowledge to improve future reform.
Brief intervention has shown to be an effective treatment for individuals that are socially stable problem drinkers; focusing on changing individual behavior with drinking and helping aid in increasing compliance with treatment (Fleming 1999). It has been shown to be valuable in helping with harm reduction and abstinence (Fleming et al. 1997). It has shown efficacy with aiding individuals with alcohol use disorder to choose to enter in to long term treatment, and for treating individuals for whom the goal is abstinence (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 1999). Brief intervention is usually conducted in four or fewer sessions, each lasting from a few minutes to an hour depending on the severity of the client’s alcohol use issues (Flemming et al. 1997).
Scott, T. M., & Shearer-Lingo, A. (2002). The effects of reading fluency instruction on the academic and behavioral success of middle school students in a self-contained E/BD classroom. Preventing School Failure, 46, 167-173.
School readiness is an important issue that is gaining attention across the country. Children who are lacking in letter knowledge, language skills, and social skills not only disadvantage themselves but also their classmates coming into first grade (Lillard 2012). Students may have a hard time in a traditional classroom where they are forced to work and their time to explore is taken away. Reading comprehension is one of the many important skills that students learn beginning from a young age. Education has shifted to be of more importance for all children, and parents, teachers, and curriculum developers need to have the best resources for helping students learn to be great readers.
Throughout a child’s life, he/she is faced with many obstacles. One of the biggest hurdles that they must overcome is learning to read. For some children, that task does not come easily. Children with learning disabilities struggle the most in school because they do not learn as quickly as children without learning disabilities. In an article by Kristin Stanberry and Lee Swanson called Effective Reading Interventions for Kids with Learning Disabilities, it discusses the different interventions that teachers can use to improve the learning capabilities of students with learning defects. Throughout this essay, different topics will be discussed on how improve and increase word recognition skills will benefit a child with learning disabilities,
Alternative schools are especially designed for youths who are at risk of educational failure due to learning disabilities, medical conditions, psychological and behavioral abnormalities, or advanced skills. Students enrolled in this type of school have a higher probability of engaging in sexual risk behaviors and thus, are more likely diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) than students in traditional schools. Alternative schools are deemed as the best environment to provide high risk youths with STD prevention programs that do not only prevent STDs but also reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy in this group of adolescents in the population (Coyle, et al., 2013).
Learning disabilities (LD) range from mild to severe. There are many problems faced with students with learning disabilities but there is one thing that they have in common. Students with learning disabilities appear to have problems but particularly more in one specific area. The commonality of this problem is that students with learning disabilities tend to often struggle in school and are put in to special education classrooms. These students have major issues with falling behind in their school work. There are many reasons as to why they fall behind and that could encompass problems at home, problems with concentration, or both. Reading comprehension appears to be the hardest subject to understand and comprehend for most
Literacy plays an integral role in a society’s economic, educational and cultural foundation. Reading comprehension enables knowledge attainment and effective communication within a variety of settings. Despite America’ status as a developed country, reading abilities among U.S. adults continue to decline and reading score gaps between racial minority students and Caucasian majority students continue (NCES, 2017; Neuman, 2013). These facts are unsettling, and the former reflects what the latter predicts. In order to equip America’s future generations with necessary skills for success driven by quality education, boosting U.S. reading scores is crucial.
Reading is an essential skill that needs to be addressed when dealing with students with disabilities. Reading is a skill that will be used for a student’s entire life. Therefore, it needs to be an important skill that is learned and used proficiently in order for a student to succeed in the real world. There are many techniques that educators can use to help improve a student’s reading comprehension. One of these skills that needs to be directly and explicitly taught is learning how to read fluently for comprehension. “To comprehend texts, the reader must be a fluent decoder and not a laborious, word-by-word reader” (Kameenui, 252). Comprehension can be difficult for students with learning disabilities because they tend to be the students that are reading below grade level. One strategy is to incorporate the student’s background knowledge into a lesson. This may require a bit of work, but it will help the students relate with the information being pres...
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, “an average of 69% of Students in 4th grade, 71% of adolescents in 8th grade,and 60% of adolescents in 12th grade read below the proficient level, meaning that those Students do not demonstrate strong grade-level reading proficiency” (Melekoglu, 2011, p.249). This states how the reading gap between students who have difficulties with reading comprehension and those who do not increase every year. When students are
Most children with specific language impairment are at risk for future academic and behavioral disorder and requires regular long term
Despite what type of institution we attended, the methods in educating students have constantly been improving. In middle school, I recall my teacher telling my class that our generation is learning faster and more than she herself learned at our age. Her statement reflects how refined our system has become in that we are able to learn more in a shorter amount of time. Teachers are more efficient now, and stud...